Edmund Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On what do you base this statement? My understanding of ATRAC (based
> > upon looking at an ATRAC decoder) is that the computational demands of
> > encoding ATRAC are similar to those for MP3. I would expect a software
> > ATRAC encoder to run about as fast as an MP3 encoder.
>
> On that note, remember the whole thing with the legal nightmare that is
> the Sony Music Clip? That did encoding of ATRAC (albiet ATRAC3) in
> software.
>
> I remember reading somewhere (I think it was in a minidisc.org news
> update) that ATRAC3 can be easily transcoded into ATRAC1 (or was it the
> other way around?).
Right, easily converted to ATRAC1 (see
http://www.world.sony.com/Electronics/ATRAC3/wat3/gijyutu.html). The
question is, where could Sony use such a conversion? If they do it on
a PC, that's implying that they'll download ATRAC1 directly to MD.
Rick
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